Count Bloggula, and Doing What You love.

I have been told all my life, I would make a good writer. I have always done well in any class that had to do with English, reading, or writing. At one time I was destined to be an English-Lit major (that is until I realized that I would be better off majoring in making toast). But one thing I always wanted to try, was writing my own editorials or news column; which is partially why I have started this blog.  At the encouragement of a few friends pushing me to try something like this, to try living the dream, I took a small portion of the time I generally waste on a daily basis and I have created a monster...

I don’t know who originally said “Do what you love, and the rest will follow” but they were 100% correct. Once again I blame optimists, for misconstruing the meaning of the statement by lazily assuming that it somehow meant “Do what you love, and suddenly you will be richer than the lucky bastard that finally got Oprah skinny”.  Let’s take a closer look at the “Do what you love” theory.  For most of my 20’s I have done nothing but the things I love, which include but are not limited to; staying out all night, sleeping in late, beer, one night stands, scotch, video game marathons, wine, beer pong, riding my bike, gin, buying new toys, and generally flushing my potential down the proverbial shitter. and I had an AWESOME time doing it. Now, at the more experienced age of 27 I can look back on these times and test the theory.  Let’s look at the “and the rest will follow” portion. What followed was not a thick bank account, it was not a revolving door of supermodels, and it is not what the optimists have spun this to be. All I got was a late start in a crappy community college, semi-regular unemployment checks, more than a few addictions, a bad opinion of most women, and this blog that not even Oprah would read if I told her there was cheesecake at the end. Optimists, you lose -- yet again.  However, somehow I jumped out of reality and right into the optimistic haze of disillusion when I agreed to start writing again.

Originally I was going to start writing to get back into practice, try a few new approaches out, and eventually increase my audience base. Well I have done that, in a creative way of looking at it. I have gone from a light commentary introduction to something I think people see as about as functional as that weird movie Little Miss Sunshine (pictured above) or a Baldwin/Sheen family reunion. (not pictured)  I have increased my reader base from 0 to two, although I’m not really certain if they actually read it or not.  So you see in some ways I have accomplished my goal. For some strange reason I still don’t quite feel satisfied with this accomplishment. If there is anyone reading this maybe you will email me with some constructive criticism or maybe just criticism. I would take that as well…

So remember kids doing what you love, will get you “the rest” but only hard work, talent, and interesting subject matter, will get you a blog people actually read. Anything less will get you a monstrosity that will eventually suck the life right out of you and anyone else it may come into contact with.

Today is day 3 of my blog. As of now I have 2 devoted readers (who might even read the blog)